While the Head of State has still not specified his intentions for the 2024 election, the power has retained the presidency of the assembly in a tense atmosphere.
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A deputy who tears the wig from another in the middle of an exchange of blows; Barthélémy Dias, mayor of Dakar and a perch candidate, who brutally seizes the microphone of a speaker in a concert of insults; Guy Marius Sagna, another opponent known for his shines, who tries to seize the urn receiving the votes for the election of the president of the National Assembly, before being taken off by a gendarmerie squadron Deployed within the hemicycle… The start of the parliamentary school in Senegal, Monday, September 12, most likely set the tone for the next eighteen months waiting for Macky Sall and his government.
During his first ten years of presidency, the Head of State had been able to direct without major pressure, with overwhelming majority in the National Assembly (124 of the 165 seats in the previous one), formed for good part of all those who gradually rallied him since his election in 2012. The legislative elections of July 31 deprived him of this ease and if the opposition has not reached him the cohabitation she hoped, the day opening of this new legislature has suggested the mines field which takes shape before him.
In order to obtain the absolute majority and to elect his perch candidate, Benno Bokk Yakaar (BBY), the presidential movement, who now has only 82 deputies, was able to count on the rallying of an independent deputy , Pope Diop, and on the inter-coalition divisions of the opposition, Yewwi Askan Wi/Wallu Senegal, who presented three candidates to finally boycott the vote. However, it now appears obvious that the executive will no longer have the same room for maneuver to vote its draft laws, lift the immunity from an opponent – as had been the case for the former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Sall In 2017 and for Ousmane Sonko, the rising figure of the opposition, in 2021 – or avoid parliamentary surveys.
“There is a real risk of paralysis”
“The chaos of this return was predictable after the tensions observed during the last elections. The first challenge of power is now to remove the opposition from the orders of the Assembly, because there is a real risk of paralysis until ‘At the end of Macky Sall’s mandate, while the vote of organic laws requires a majority of three fifths, “said a foreign observer on the spot.
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